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From: Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com>
To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Seamonkey port?
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Steve Wills wrote:

>
> On 11/03/2015 23:38, Louis Epstein wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Steve Wills wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/02/2015 23:59, Louis Epstein wrote:
> >>>
> >>> While /usr/ports/UPDATING mentioned a seamonkey 2.38 port on October 6th
> >>> the port itself doesn't seem to exist yet!
> >>>
> >>> When's it coming?
> >>
> >> I have worked on it and have a patch here:
> >>
> >> https://people.freebsd.org/~swills/seamonkey.diff
> >>
> >> It builds but fails to link for me, at least on 11-CURRENT. I haven't
> >> tested other versions. Could you test?
> >
> > I'm running 10.1-RELEASE-p23.
> > How would I install that patch?
>
> There are two steps:
>
> 1. Get an update to date ports tree. You can use either portsnap or svn
> for this. Skip this step if you already have a ports tree.

I update my ports tree several times a day.

> 2. Apply the patch using the patch command.

Have not done this before.Does your .diff file need to be
downloaded to a particular place?
www/seamonkey/somewhere?

> Then you can use "make install" to build and install the updated version.
>
> Steve
>

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